Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Challenged, he explained next day that his conclusion was drawn from the official report on the 1945 Hiroshima bomb, which scientists now consider a model-T bomb. The report said that "flash burns were protected by clothing and buildings within less than 3,250 ft. from the blast." The north-south runway, Tatom declared, is 6,840 ft. long. Rejoined Georgia's Congressman Carl Vinson laconically: "I, personally, would rather be in Georgia...
...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
...under her jester's mask of giggles, Edie is a changed girl. In that instant of discovery she drops her girlhood like an old pinafore and turns like a flash into a Shavian woman in love-absorbed, intense, sole-heartedly set on the capture of her own beloved, Charley Raunce...
...have anticipated it for four years and it calls for no change in our basic defense plans." That was true. But there was an enormous difference between "tomorrow" and "now" and the armed forces were the first who would have to readjust their timing. Minutes after the news flash whipped through the Pentagon's interlaced corridors, officers were hastily pulling papers from confidential files, and translating future strategy into plans for the present...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...